| It's between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf | 49 |
| Some pieces on Ali Baba's chessboard? | 41 |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton was one | 34 |
| Foreign Service Officer to the Middle East, say | 47 |
| Protests in Tahrir Square were a part of it | 43 |
| African countries on the Mediterranean, e.g. | 44 |
| Public opinion in the Middle East | 33 |
| Small toucan with a yellow breast | 33 |
| "It's ___ against time" | 37 |
| "It's ___ to the finish" | 38 |
| "It's ___ to the finish..." | 41 |
| 'It's -- to the finish!' | 36 |
| Cultivated land in the Southwest | 32 |
| Mideast peace conference attendee, 1993 | 39 |
| "To ___ bone . . . ": Kipling | 39 |
| O'Hara's "___ Live" | 37 |
| O'Hara's story of Middle East extremism? | 48 |
| Moon crater named for a French astronomer | 41 |
| "It's __!" (speakeasy cry) | 40 |
| "It's ___!" (speakeasy cry) | 41 |
| Police announcement: "This is _____!" | 47 |
| "This is_____!" (crimebuster's cry) | 49 |
| "This is ___!" (police cry) | 37 |
| "It's __!": speakeasy warning | 43 |
| "There's ___ in the sky" | 38 |
| "__ in the Sun" (Poitier film) | 40 |
| "Every man may be ___": Chesterfield | 46 |
| Babylonian abode of the dead (anagram of LAURA) | 47 |
| Mild-flavored seaweed in Japanese cuisine | 41 |
| Synthetic polyamide used in fiber-making | 40 |
| "The Sabre Dance" composer | 36 |
| Family of Bulwer-Lytton protagonist | 36 |
| "Still in the Dark" Oklahoma rockers | 46 |
| Member of a North American Plains people (Var.) | 47 |
| Colorado county named for a local tribe | 39 |
| "What ___ mood I'm in ..." | 40 |
| "What ___ mood I'm in . . . " | 43 |
| ''What ___ mood I'm in ...'' | 48 |
| ___ kanfoth, Orthodox Jewish male's garb | 44 |
| Ship that brought Puritans to Salem | 35 |
| Process at work in some hearings | 32 |
| Annual event celebrated outdoors | 32 |
| Like possums, sloths and squirrels | 34 |
| Trees, as distinguished from shrubs | 35 |
| Official stamp in a shady recess? | 33 |
| Canada's greatest international jurist | 42 |
| "Identical Twins" photographer | 40 |
| Band with the 2013 album "Reflektor" | 46 |
| "Funeral" band, with "The" | 46 |
| College town north of San Francisco | 35 |
| College town near Eureka, Calif. | 32 |
| Ray ___, noted manager of boxers | 32 |
| Ray ___, famous manager of boxers | 33 |
| High-ranking religious authority | 32 |
| Ecclesiastic next below a bishop | 32 |
| Extremely evil former McDonald's sandwich? | 46 |
| Austria-Hungary's Francis Ferdinand, e.g. | 45 |
| Robin Hood and his Merry Men, e.g. | 34 |
| Straight A's comical redhead | 32 |
| Lovable curmudgeon of 1970's TV | 35 |
| Fighter with a record 131 career knockouts | 42 |
| Film reviewed by Jughead's friend? | 38 |
| "Sugar, Sugar" group, with The | 40 |
| 'Sugar, Sugar' group, with 'the' | 48 |
| Origination of first life on earth | 34 |
| Where historic documents are shelved | 36 |
| Suffix meaning "form of government" | 45 |
| Fictional cockroach with a typewriter | 37 |
| Don Marquis's six-legged poet | 33 |
| Having the trajectory of a pop-up hit | 37 |
| Chachi's last name on "Happy Days" | 48 |
| Author of "Le Mal": 1916 | 34 |
| ___ de la Frontera, city NE of Cádiz | 39 |
| ___ de la Frontera (town near Cádiz) | 39 |
| Inverse function in trigonometry | 32 |
| Function whose domain is between -1 and 1 | 41 |
| With Bay, the dryest place in Canada | 36 |
| Much of Canada's Nunavut province | 37 |
| Powerful wind a polar bear could feel | 37 |
| It's a little over 65 degrees: Abbr. | 40 |
| Parts of seven countries lie within it | 38 |
| Alaska's Dalton Highway crosses it | 38 |
| Holiday elves who can't get along? | 38 |
| Ursus ___ (scientific name for the brown bear) | 46 |
| Fourth-brightest star in the sky | 32 |
| "Battle of the Bulge" site | 36 |
| Still-banned ballplayer, to fans | 32 |
| Subject of many Onion news stories | 34 |
| Subject of many an "Onion" article | 44 |
| Tourist information center handouts | 35 |
| They'll show you the neighborhood | 37 |
| They'll show you around the neighborhood | 44 |
| Crossworder's section of a solo? | 36 |
| "I would give no man ___...": Shak. | 45 |
| Start of an explanation for canine friendship | 45 |
| Sunken space in front of a cellar window | 40 |
| "Two heads ___ than one": Heywood | 43 |
| Puerto Rico's -- Observatory | 32 |
| " . . . ALL ___ EQUAL . . . " | 39 |
| News item heading in the local communist paper? | 47 |